Not feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn’t be practical since you van just hop to another server.
This pisses me off, governments mandating control. Would this affect Lemmy or any fediverse software one day?
it already does it’s the reason why lemmy.zip isn’t accessible in the uk (though it still federates to other servers)
Not feasibly, no. If a centralized platform like bluesky refuses to abide by the laws in a given country, their platform can be made inaccessible in that country. Trying to do that to countless activitypub-compliant servers wouldn’t be practical since you van just hop to another server.
Do you think they won’t try? I mean both the Tory and previous Labour admins tried to ban encryption.